Ballistic resistance of 2D and 3D woven sandwich composites

Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-302

  Grogan, Joseph ^a   Tekalur, Srinivasan A ^b   Shukla, Arjun ^b   Bogdanovich, Alex ^c   Coffelt, Robert A ^c  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c 3 Tex Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

3D weave; Armor panels; Ballistic resistance; Sandwich composite structures

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; GLASS FIBERS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

3D WOVEN SANDWICH COMPOSITES; ARMOR PANELS; BALLISTIC RESISTANCE; SANDWICH COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 34247575128     PISSN: 10996362     EISSN: 15307972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1099636207067133     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Vasudev, A. and Mehlman, M.J. (1987). A Comparative Study of the Ballistic Performance of Glass Reinforced Plastic Materials, SAMPE Quarterly, 18 (4). 43 48.
2. Bless, S.J. and Hartman, D.R. (1989). Ballistic Penetration of S-2 Glass Laminates, In: Proc. of 21st International SAMPE Technical Conference, 2528 September, pp. 852866.
3. Viechnicki, D.J., Anctil, A.A., Papetti, D.J. and Prifti, J.J. (1989). Lightweight Armor A Status Report, MTL-TR-89-8, DTIC Doc AD-D150 327.
4. Fink, B.K. (2000). Performance Metrics for Composite Integral Armor, US Army Research Laboratory Report, ARL-RP-8, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, October 2000.
5. Bogdanovich, A.E., Singletary, J.N., Coffelt, R.A., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Gama, B.A., Yu, C.-J. and Claar, D. (2001). Innovative Processing of Multifunctioning Composite Ground Armor Phase I Final Report, US Army Research Laboratory Report, ARL-CR-481, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, September 2001.
6. Bogdanovich, A.E., Singletary, J.N., Coffelt, R.A., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Gama, B.A., Yu, C.-J. and Claar, D. (2001). Innovative Processing of Multifunctioning Composite Ground Armor Bridge Program Final Report, US Army Research Laboratory Report, ARL-CR-480, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, September 2001.
7. Singletary, J., Bogdanovich, A., Coffelt, R., Gama, B.A., Gillespie, Jr., J.W., Hoppel, C.P.R. and Fink, B.K. (2001). Ballistic Performance of 3-D Woven Polymer Composites in Integral Armor, In: CD Proceedings of the American Society for Composites, 16th Technical Conference, Blacksburg, VA, 912 September, 2001.
8. Hart, B.F. (2003). Impact of Fabric Cost on Manufacturing Cost of Composite Integral Armor, US Army Research Laboratory Report, ARL-TN-0212, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, November 2003.
9. Bogdanovich, A., Coffelt, R., Grogan, J. and Shukla, A. (2005). Integral 3-D Woven S-2 Glass Fabric Composites for Ballistic Armor Systems, In: CD Proceedings of the 26th International SAMPE Europe Conference, Paris, France, 57 April, 2005, pp. 245250.
10. Mohamed, M.H., Bogdanovich, A.E., Dickinson, L.C., Singletary, J.N. and Lienhart, R.B. (2001). A New Generation of 3D Woven Fabric Preforms an Composites, SAMPE Journal, 37 (3). 8 17.
11. Tamuzs, V., Tarasovs, S., Bogdanovich, A. and Singletary, J. (2002). Fracture Toughness and Bridging Law of 3D Woven Composites, In: Book of Abstracts, 3rd ESIS TC4 Conference on Polymers and Composites, Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 1518 September, 2002.
12. Tamuzs, V., Tarasovs, S., Vilks, U., Bogdanovich, A. and Singletary, J. (2002). Delamination Fracture Toughness of 3D Woven Composites, In: Booklet of Abstracts, 10th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM-10), Brugge, Belgium, 37 June, 2002.
13. Tamuzs, V., Tarasovs, S. and Vilks, U. (2003). Delamination Properties of Translaminar-Reinforced Composites, Composites Science and Technology, 63 (10). 1423 1431.
14. Bogdanovich, A.E. (2003). Innovative Materials for Lightweight Armor Phase II Annual Progress Report, US Army Research Laboratory Report, ARL-CR-524, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, June 2003.
15. Czarnecki, G.J. (1998). Estimation of the V50 using Semi-empirical (1-point) Procedures, Composites Part B: Engineering, 29 (3). 199 342.